224 pages ; 23 cm

Reprint of the English translation: Philadelphia : Westminster Press, 1960

Translation of: Das hebräische Denken im Vergleich mit dem Griechischen (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1954)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and indexes

Introduction: The problem -- I. Dynamic and static thinking -- Dynamic thinking -- Static being -- Non-being -- The word -- Collective concepts and ideas -- II. Impression and appearance -- The impression of buildings -- The impression of men -- The impression of things -- The impression of God -- Excursus: Jewish pictorial art in the Diaspora -- Appearance in Greek thinking -- II. Time and space -- The Greek-European conception of time -- The Israelite conception of time -- Space -- Quantity and number: Spatially quantitative and dynamically qualitative quantities -- History and nature -- IV. Symbolism and instrumentalism -- The Hebrew conception of the thing -- The Greek conception of the thing -- The transparence of God -- V. Logical thinking and psychological understanding -- Logic and psychology -- The warrant for the two viewpoints -- The independence of the Israelite thinker -- The formal peculiarity of each kind of thinking -- VI. Summary and psychological foundation of the differences

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